After dealing with some very opnioniated PHP bigots in the past (but, such characters are present with any topic of interest really), I can’t help but post a link to this article talking about what looks to be a waining interest in PHP as of late.

This last eight months saw Intel, SAP, Oracle and IBM [...]

Yet another thought provoking entry from Paul Graham, an often controversial but nonetheless enlightening author of great software topics. A few of my favorite quotes from “What Business Can Learn From Open Source“:

The problem with the facetime model is not just that it’s demoralizing, but that the people pretending to work interrupt the ones [...]

So if you got a login and password prompt when you came to my site, my stupid Lingo router flaked-out. I’m still not even sure what the problem was.. after messing around with it and hard rebooting it, it finally fixed itself. So yeah, the site is back now.

I have to admit, lately I’m a big, big fan of development using CFEclipse, Subversion, and building Apache Ant scripts to do builds and deployments with for ColdFusion applications. I have quite a few more ideas to add to some existing Ant scripts that I have to do builds, and I’ll keep posting them [...]

It’s fairly rare that I find myself doing anything but “back-end” development, but at the moment I’m pitching in and helping tie-up a few loose ends on a new product which is a nice change. One task which I took over was exporting a tutorial from a MS PowerPoint presentation to something that would [...]